Evidence is steadily accumulating that insufficient sleep increases the risk of obesity and undermines fat loss efforts. Short sleep durati...
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Sleep and Genetic Obesity Risk
Evidence is steadily accumulating that insufficient sleep increases the risk of obesity and undermines fat loss efforts. Short sleep durati...
Speaking in Lisbon on October 5
My friend Pedro Bastos graciously invited me to speak at a conference he organized in Lisbon on October 5 titled "Food, Nutrition and t...
Is Refined Carbohydrate Addictive?
[Note: in previous versions, I mixed up "LGI" and "HGI" terms in a couple of spots. These are now corrected. Thanks to...
More Thoughts on Cold Training: Biology Chimes In
Now that the concept of cold training for cold adaptation and fat loss has received scientific support, I've been thinking more about ho...
AHS Talk This Saturday
For those who are attending the Ancestral Health Symposium this year, my talk will be at 9:00 AM on Saturday. The title is "Insulin an...
Brown Fat: It's a Big Deal
Non-shivering thermogenesis is the process by which the body generates extra heat without shivering. Shivering is a way for the body to us...
The Genetics of Obesity, Part III
Genetics Loads the Gun, Environment Pulls the Trigger Thanks to a WHS reader* for reminding me of the above quote by Dr. Francis Collins, di...
The Genetics of Obesity, Part II
The Genetics of Obesity, Part I
Choosing the Right Parents: the Best Way to Stay Lean? In 1990, Dr. Claude Bouchard and colleagues published a simple but fascinating study ...
The Neurobiology of the Obesity Epidemic
I recently read an interesting review paper by Dr. Edmund T. Rolls titled "Taste, olfactory and food texture reward processing in the b...
Speaking at AHS13
The 2013 Ancestral Health Symposium will be held in Atlanta, GA, August 14-17. Last year was a great conference, and I look forward to more...
Food Variety, Calorie Intake, and Weight Gain
Let's kick off this post with a quote from a 2001 review paper ( 1 ): Increased variety in the food supply may contribute to the develop...
Book Review: Salt, Sugar, Fat
Michael Moss is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist who has made a career writing about the US food system. In his latest book, Salt, Sugar...
Glucagon, Dietary Protein, and Low-Carbohydrate Diets
Glucagon is a hormone that plays an important role in blood glucose control. Like insulin, it's secreted by the pancreas, though it...
Neuronal Control of Appetite, Metabolism and Weight
Last week, I attended a Keystone conference, "Neuronal Control of Appetite, Metabolism and Weight", in Banff. Keystone conference...
Body Fatness and Cardiovascular Risk Factors
I recently revisited a really cool paper published in the Lancet in 2009 on body fatness, biomarkers, health, and mortality ( 1 ). It's ...
Why Do We Eat? A Neurobiological Perspective. Part VIII
In the (probably) last post of this series, I'll take the pieces that I've gradually outlined in previous posts, and put them togeth...
Why Do We Eat? A Neurobiological Perspective. Part VI
In previous posts in this series, I explained that the brain (primarily the mesolimbic system) integrates various factors to decide whether ...
Why Do We Eat? A Neurobiological Perspective. Part IV
In this post, I'll follow up on the last post with a discussion two more important factors that can affect energy homeostasis and theref...
Why Do We Eat? A Neurobiological Perspective. Part III
In the first post, I explained that all voluntary actions are driven by a central action selection system in the mesolimbic area (the reward...
